ALERT! BAMIDE ABAYOMI, ANOTHER NIGERIAN GOES IN EXILE BECAUSE OF BOKO HARAM DEADLY MOVEMENT -goBIGnews

   

Bamide Abayomi

This is a clarion call to the Nigerian Government as the increasing menace of Boko Haram in country is making thousands of Nigerians and most especially the youths getting involved in dangerous journeys to travel out the once great country and the giant of African known as Nigeria.

Information made available as part of our investigative journalism on the network operations of the deadly and fearless Boko Haram has revealed that another resourceful young talent in the country known as Bamide Abayomi, born in Lagos State, the Centre of Excellence had gone on exile due to incessant threats to his life and the gory attack on his family members that claimed their lives by the unrepentant dare-devil Boko Haram movement in Nigeria.

Further investigation to the early life of the victim showed that Bamide Abayomi, who was resourceful and very supportive to his family was born on April 10, 1976 to Mr. and Mrs. Abayomi who are devoted Catholic Christians, which made them to baptize him and teach him the Catholic doctrine and at his younger age he is no doubt a committed young Catholic in their church. The Abayomis belongs to the Yoruba ethnicity and they are respected and reputable family in their community.

We also gathered that at the age of 12 years he moved with his family to Maiduguri from Lagos, simply because his father was a clothes seller that moves from one state to the other in the company of his loving mother who was full housewife.

He later returned back to Lagos to receive his secondary school education from the Ansar-ud-deen Grammar School.  But due to some financial difficulties, he was unable to continue his studies. 

At the age of 24 he started an apprenticeship with a certain Samson who trained him in maintenance and repair of various household appliances and engines. 

After his stay in Lagos for a while as a successful apprenticeship, Bamide decided to go back to Maiduguri to join his parents and support them with his new skills as an artisan.

 On getting back to Maiduguri, he was easily spotted as a new comer in the community and because of his skills developed from Lagos he was approached several times by members of Boko Haram asking him to join them, with a promise to protect him and his family in their territory. 

On January 10, 2006, the Armageddon was let loose and there was great chaos in the streets and the people in the community were running helter-skelter because the blood sucking members of the Boko Haram were attacking the houses of Christians in the community where his parents were staying and setting them all on fire.  It was a really sad day for Bamide because his mother, brother and sisters died in the fire set on their home and it was burnt to the ground.  And his father was nowhere to be found till now. 

Unfortunately, Bamide tried to flee from killers, but he was caught and locked up in a cave with 30 others captured during the persecution of the Christians in the community.  It was a real bad experience as Bamide and the others incarcerated were daily punished with different weapons and they were asked daily to join the Boko Haram and when he refused his hand was cut with a machete and others were cut in different parts of their bodies too to inflict pains on them for refusing to join the extremist group. 

To God be the glory, he managed to escape with some of the captives while they were fed, he and the other prisoners escaped and injured a guard with his knife and a heavy stone used to put him unconscious.  After a long sojourn in the desert part from Niger, he crossed the border with others that escaped with him into Nigeria with the help of some Nigerian fighters patrolling the border. 

So, sad the last we heard of Bamide was that he fled further to Idiroko, where he stayed for months working as an assistant in a local restaurant before he was lucky to be assisted by a smuggler that took him to Libya, where he later stayed for almost a year. Further findings also revealed that in the early year of 2008, he was able to cross the Mediterranean Sea and he is trying to survive in Sicily.

Fact! He knew he is no longer safe in any part of the country because he has seen some faces of the Boko Haram members and they have promised to kill him no matter what before he was able to escape from their den. Bamide won’t be the first and the last to be captured by the well connected Boko Haram in Nigeria and those who should known disclosed that it was good opportunity that he flee the country into an exile because there is no where he can move to within Nigeria and West Africa that they won’t hunt him down because he is already in their list and their network is very strong in Nigeria and Africa at large.

Checks revealed that  Boko Haram movement is very active in the Northern part of Nigeria and it has been there plans to spread across other geo-graphical zones of the country to create more havoc and insurgencies to carry on with their deadly acts to make the entire country unsafe for both lives and properties. And, this is one of the main reasons the civil right societies and other task forces decided to form a joint community security network to fight against the penetration of the ruthless Boko Haram sect to the entire country.

For the records, the numbers of Nigerians in exile are increasing because they don’t want to become victims of Boko Haram recruitment plots; we also gathered that there were hundreds of Nigeria youths that were cajoled and even forced to be members of the ruthless group in this part of the world and this is a urgent call for the Nigerian Government to look more in-ward and be pro-active in strengthening the security of lives and properties in the country, Nigeria.